A High Court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, has restrained the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, from parading himself as chairman of the party.
The presiding judge, Justice W.I. Kpochi, gave the interim order on Monday in the suit No. MHC/85/2023 filed at the court by Terhide Utaan with Ayu and the PDP as defendants.
The case was adjourned until April 17 for further hearing.
The application was supported by a 15 paragraph affidavit to which it was annexed three exhibits as exhibits A1, A2 and B which were the applicant’s membership card of the second defendant, receipts for payment of dues and a vote of no confidence passed in the 1st defendant by the Igyorov Council Ward of the 2nd defendant in Gboko Local Government, Benue State.
The court statement said, “Upon hearing Mr. M. T. Assoh of Learned Counsel ably move the application and upon a dispassionate consideration of the facts placed before me in the pool of the affidavit evidence, and again, upon the consideration of the issues distilled in the written address by M. T. Assoh of Learned Counsel, it is my candid view that this is a proper case to grant the interim injunction as craved.
The ward executives of the party at Igyorov, Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State had on Sunday in an announcement by the wards secretary, Vangeryina Dooyum, on behalf of Kashi Philip, the ward chairman, suspended the PDP Chairman over alleged anti-party activities.
